A new kind of plasma accelerator has cleared a hurdle that has dogged the field for decades, lifting electron energy and beam ...

A creative group of trailblazers is reinventing particle acceleration by making electrons and positrons surf a wave of plasma. Particle accelerators have a history of getting larger. Using current ...

The Large Helical Device (LHD) and the heavy ion beam probe (HIBP) system. The inset on the left shows an enlarged view of the section from the negative ion source to the injection side of the tandem ...